"Screams of Joy"

Dischord

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The minimalist post-hardcore group Lungfish are one of my favorite bands, frontman Daniel Higgs one of the few people I genuinely admire. The Baltimore quartet's been on hiatus since 2006, but they're never far away from my stereo, so at least in these parts, it feels like the project's as vital now as when I was discovering them in the early 1990s. Helping to fuel that energy, they've put together A.C.R. 1999, a collection out May 14 on Dischord that features 10 songs recorded at their hometown's A.C.R. studios during the year of the title. Six of the tracks were re-recorded later at Inner Ear and included on 2000's Necrophones, but the following, "Screams of Joy", hasn't surfaced until now.